I am such a cinnamon fanatic. I adapted this recipe from Kids Magazine. It was originally for peppermint ice cream, and it called for a quart and a half of ice cream. I scaled things down to 2 cups of ice cream. Also made cinnamon sugar cookies for cinnamon ice cream sandwiches.
2 cups natural vanilla bean ice cream
Coarsely crush candy canes and Red Hots in a sturdy bag. Mix candy with ice cream. Stir in ground cinnamon and cinnamon extract. Freeze overnight.
2 cups natural vanilla bean ice cream
5 cinnamon candy canes
8 Schimpff's Confectionery Red Hots
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp cinnamon extract
Coarsely crush candy canes and Red Hots in a sturdy bag. Mix candy with ice cream. Stir in ground cinnamon and cinnamon extract. Freeze overnight.
Comments
Maybe just some extract with ground cinnamon would do the trick. I like zingy cinnamon, not the cozy, warm kind, like the cookie-dough-remake cinnamon ice cream (minus the clumps of dough) I had at Bruster's a few weeks ago.
You definitely need the red hots if it's going to be spicy. Extract + cinnamon is not very exciting.